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    It's a nice animation but do remember that what's actually going on is even messier that the words used to describe it. Things spin a million times a second and are jostling around so much that they just chaotically bump into each other instead of magically falling into place like these... more

    Reviewed by Shokushu Jul 11, 05:56pm ( 69 reviews ) harvard.edu

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  • Rated by Shokushu on Jul 11, 5:56pm

    It's a nice animation but do remember that what's actually going on is even messier that the words used to describe it. Things spin a million times a second and are jostling around so much that they just chaotically bump into each other instead of magically falling into place like these videos tend to show. @Innomen Damn, I've been in the game so long I don't even think about the obfuscation most of the time. I know that moving up to the species level we accumulate troublesome vocabulary because the dick who named something feels like the name he chose was perfect and because he's the single guy leading research about it we all kind of have to use his terms to keep is from being even worse than this and by the time he's finally stepped down so many people are used to it that we just keep doing it the way we have been. A lot of the time even when an official organization steps in and says they're overriding someone's choice of names they still refuse to stop standing in the way of clarity. It sucks pretty hard but compared to the time I spent grasping concepts the Latin vocabulary feels like it was just a blink of an eye. I know I actually spent a lot longer learning how to speak in this gibberish specialty language but it's hard to remember the way I used to think.

  • Rated by chrisdturner on Jun 21, 3:18pm

    Wow! Seeing all this in a video really brought back a lot of the things I learnt years back, but seeing it all come together in a video like this is brilliant! Absolutely amazing to see what is really just a small fraction of the intricate workings of the cell.

  • Rated by lysergicwindow on Apr 09 2009, 1:52pm

    Amazing find! The industry of the body... Blows my mind!

  • Rated by superhoot30 on Apr 02 2009, 7:48pm

    Pretty cool stuff.

  • Reviewed by Level4Biohazard on Mar 22 2009, 4:17am

    Lots of big words.

  • Rated by Innomen on Mar 07 2009, 1:05pm

    Beautiful video and a wonderful example of scientific obfuscation. Is it truly necessary at this point of our technological development to cloak everything in pseudo Latin and eponyms? Gee, it's almost like they profit in some way from the scarcity of their training. Good thing cell biology and such were not made more intuitive, then we might have an abundance of cell biologists, and we all know how much that would suck... for pharmaceutical companies at least.

  • Rated by Colin-Andrews on Mar 07 2009, 1:28am

    Incredible